Clothes-pin.



A. C. SMITHSON.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20. ms.

1,161,352. Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

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AUGUSTUS C. SMITHSON, 01? HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.

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Application filed March 20, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS C. SMITH- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hot Springs, in the county of Garland and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Pin; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved clothes pin, and an object of the inventlon is to provide an improved clothes pin having forks at both ends, and so constructed as to hold a thick garment to the line at one end of he pin, and a thin garment at the other end.

Another object of the invention is to provide a clothes pin having double clothes engaging ends.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a structure whereby the double clothes engaging ends may be adjusted, so that both ends may engage thin garments, or whereby one end may engage a thick garment, and the other end a thin garment, and vice versa.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitate alterations, falling within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings :F igure 1 is a view in perspective of one form of clothes pin, showing the same engaging both ends of thin garments. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective showing the clothes pin arranged so as to engage a thick garment at a at one end and a thin garment at b at the other end. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 6-6 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line 77 of Fig. 2.

Referring more especially to the drawings, 1 designates one section of the clothes pin, and 2 denotes the other section, and the outer portion of both sections are bifurcated as shown at 3 and 4 forming forks 5 and 6. Both sections of the clothes pin Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

Serial no. 15,731. I

are provided with bores 7 and 8, which are in alinement axially, to receive the clothes line 9. The adjacent faces of the forks of both sections are provided with grooves 10 and 11, which merge into said bores, and when the forks of one section are engaging a thin garment or piece of clothing, their respective grooves receive the clothing partially, as shown in the cross sectional view of Fig. 4:, but when a thick garment is held in place by the other section of the pin, the garment is partially received by only one groove, whereby the other groove receives the wire, as shown in cross sectional view of Fig. 5. The adjacent ends of the two sections of the pin are provided with annular grooves 12 and 13, which receive the flanges 14 and 15 of the band 16 (the wall of which is substantially U-shaped in cross section) thereby swivelly connecting the two sections, so that one section may be turned with relation to the other.

As will be observed, the two sections of the pin may be adjusted in order that the forks may extend correspondingly alike, so that two pieces of garment of substantially the same thickness may be clamped to the clothes line, or one section may be turned so that its bifurcation may extend in a plane at right angles to the plane of the other bifurcation, in order that a thin garment may be clamped by one section, and a thick garment by the other section, and vice versa.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is 1. A hollow clothes pin comprising a body consisting of two sections, each having at its outer end clothes engaging forks, and means for swivelly connecting said sections axially, whereby the sections may be adjusted, so that the forks at one end may extend in the same plane with, or at right angles with the forks at the other end.

2. A clothes pin comprising a body consisting of two sections, means for swivelly connecting said sections axially, said sec-v tions having a bore extending centrally and axially therethrough, each section having its outer end portions terminating in clothes engaging forks, the adjacent faces of the forks being provided With grooves merging In testimony whereof I have signed my into the bore, said sections adapted to be name to this specification in the presence of adjusted so that the forks of one section tWo subscribing Witnesses.

may extend in a plane at right angles to AUGUSTUS C. SMITHSON. the plane of the forks of the other section, itnesses:

or the forks of both sections may extend W. V. DIsBRoW,

in the same plane. THos. J. GLAnsoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. G. 

